Case Study: Queen’s University Smith School of Business achieves a substantial rise in applicant quality with Kira Talent

Smith School of Business - Customer Case Study

Queen’s University Smith School of Business needed a better way to evaluate MBA applicants who couldn’t attend in‑person interviews — the school is three hours east of Toronto and paper applications didn’t reveal candidates’ personalities or potential. To address this, the admissions team turned to Kira Talent and its Kira video assessment platform to gain deeper, scalable insight into applicants beyond written materials.

Kira Talent’s solution asked each applicant three questions drawn from a bank of over 30, enabling the team to replace hour‑long live interviews, save weeks of admissions time, and collaboratively compare candidates on professional background, personality, and program fit. As a result of using Kira, the Smith MBA admissions process became more robust and the school saw a substantial rise in the quality of its applicants.

Queen’s University Smith School of Business

Shai Dubey

Director